This blew me away! I KNOW HIM SO WELL - ELAINE PAIGE BARBARA DICKSON REACTION - First time hearing
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I KNOW HIM SO WELL by ELAINE PAIGE and BARBARA DICKSON REACTION - First time hearing.The two British singers were at the top of their game with this stunning performance.
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I adore this song. The whole musical Chess is amazing. One Night In Bangkok by Murray Head actually charted. Written by the gentlemen from Abba, I went into it expecting good things. Was not disappointed.
I am one of the (seemingly) few people in the world that just doesn't get musicals. And most songs that were written for musicals have something that's typically "musical" which I loathe. Musicals to me are like opera, where -as the Dutch comedian Hans Liberg once stated- instead of calling the emergency number, people start to sing when they are being stabbed 🤣. Why is there a song in this part of the story? That's also why the Elton John biopic was a huge disappointment. I expected songs to be part of the film of course, but not as some kind of odd interlude between two parts of the story, totally out of context in my experience.
Alas, the songs for Chess (at least this one and "One Night In Bangkok") are just brilliant songs and I don't think I have to see the musical to enjoy them 😁.
Chess start to finish is a gorgeous musical soundtrack! (the original one this one) But I would like to point out that Tim Rice also was on the writing team for this musical along with the guys from Abba
Great to see you react to this classic..not many reactors seem to do so.👍
A song by Björn & Benny (ABBA) and Tim Rice.
It starts with Fender Rhodes piano, then Lasse Wellander anounces the precense of his guitar, Elain Paige sets the mood of the song and then it keeps unfolding with Barbara Dicksons voice, Per Lindwalls drums and it all convege to an unearthly state of bliss… Absolutely fantastic!
BARBARA DICKSON became a well-known face on the British folk circuit of the late 1960s and early 1970s, but changed her career course after meeting Willy Russell. He was at that time a young student running a folk club in Liverpool. He showed Dickson the first draft of what later became the award-winning musical John, Paul, George, Ringo … and Bert and asked her to perform the music. The combination of fine writing, a superb cast of young unknowns (including Antony Sher, Bernard Hill and Trevor Eve) and Dickson's idiosyncratic interpretation of Beatles songs made the show hugely successful.
Classic performance by two classic performers!Thank you girls.
There is a reason it sounds so much like ABBA.
Elaine Page did this song with Susan Boyle also. Susan won Britain's Got Talent a few years ago. She's pretty amazing if you haven't heard her. I had to look up the musical. I knew the song but not the play. Turns out it was written by the two male singers from ABBA and is about the Cold War set against a chess match. The song is beautiful and just gives me chills when I hear it.
Susan didn't win, she got second place
@@ottokaare5925 Yes. (Runners-up on those big talent shows sometimes seem to do better longer term than winners.)
I liked your reaction and summation. Great video and timeless song.
check out Elaine's version of "memory" from the play "Cats"...Ty Harri
Not saying I don't love this one. I do. Its wonderful. Barbara Dickson has a lot of songs to check out.
CHESS doesn't get half the love it deserves. Music by the guys from ABBA and lyrics by Sir Tim Rice ( JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR and THE LION KING)...it's lightning in a bottle!
This was just beautiful. I have never heard of these women or this song but something about it reminds me of ABBA. Thanks for the variety Harri. 🌺✌️
After ABBA split up, Bjorn and Benny from ABBA composed music for a musical called Chess. This is from that musical :) So your senses are spot on, it sounds like ABBA for a reason. They also made a musical after Chess that was a huge success in their home country of Sweden, it´s called "Kristina from Duvemala".
@@comedyriff5231 fran
It ought to, same writers. Good spotting. Also check out these:
Story Of A Heart (Benny Andersson Orchestra f/Helen Sjoholm)
Gold Can Turn To Sand (Josh Groban, from the A&U musical Kristina)
Post-ABBA solo recordings by Agnetha Faltskog and Frida Lyngstad
@Harri Checkout Murray Head One Night In Bangkok both from the Musical Chess
One is 'the wife' and the other is 'the mistress'. Both love the man which is why they make excuses for his behaviour. Never had the expression "he wants his cake and to eat it as well" been so versed in a song. Barbara Dixon was very popular in the 80s. Check out her song 'Caravan'.
A magnificent song by Bjorn and Benny from their musical Chess. IMHO as good as anything by Andrew LW.
Singing Angels! Wish I could sing, I didn't get picked for the choir in elementary school...decades and decades ago (lol) 🤣
You are bang on the money man!
What goes up surely comes down ……the roller coaster that which is life.
This song portrays it sooo well☺️
Barbara played the mum in musical blood brothers.try tell me it's not true from the musical or another suitcase in another hall from musical Evita which Elaine starred in.elaine was in cats try memory from it.
6 weeks at number one in Great Britain
I loved your reaction to Chrystal and Alexis!
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There's no need for Beyonce and/or Mariah Carey do this song (I don't think they could do it justice anyway) when we can access the original at any time. This song was written for a stage play, so it makes sense that someone like Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson, who were both by the early 1980s very experienced stage performers, the right ones to sing this song.
M.Carey ? Please not,B who ? They have no souls
Mariah shrieking and dogwhistling her way through this A&U classic? Good Lord that would be torture...
Harri. Check out another pair with this song. Amanda Holden and Sheridan Smith.
The guy stringing two women along was lucky. Dude.
There is also a version out there featuring Paul O Grady as Lily Savage and Barbar Dickson. When Barbara sings " I could have done things differently. Learned about the man before I began " Paul as Lily interjects "You can say THAT again " lol There is also a Peter Kay version!
Yes, and the Peter Kay one both brilliantly parodies the original video and involves Susan Boyle! It's terrific.
Nice to see this one reacted to. There are numerous covers of it but this is the classic 80s original and no other version tops it. Two of the subsequent covers involved Susan Boyle (of Britain's Got Talent fame), a live performance with Elaine Paige and a hilarious, but really well sung, sendup for Comic Relief with comedian Peter Kay (in drag); details from the original video are parodied but the rendition is great. Now that you've checked out the classic original, take a look at the Boyle/Kay version. Also find Story Of A Heart (Benny Andersson Orchestra featuring Helen Sjoholm) and Gold Can Turn To Sand (Josh Groban, from Kristina)...
Whitney Houston and her mum did a cover of this too ❤
Whitney and Cissy Houston did a version of this in 1987. It was released as a single in Germany.
That was when I first heard it (did not hear this version until 5 years later) and though Whitney is my all time fav I prefer this version
The people you mention have done their own versions. lol
This song charted also. It was a huge number 1 back in the day. The guy who has been stringing them along is Murray Head who sings One Night in Bancock ' he is off out of it there !Enough said.!I have seen the musical play It is a classic ! anyway there is a final comeuppance. Justice is done
He loses his big chess match ! Thanks for this. I was intrigued to hear what you thought.
No this song is about the Russian. Murray Head played the American
@@toriboy25 The story may have been rewritten since I saw it The American was the baddie in the version I saw. I think it's been changed as the original version wasn't going down too well Stateside. The American was definitely a nasty bit of work in.the one I saw. I remember being surprised as I was all ready to accept him as the hero This is the thing with stage shows , they evolve as they progress. Mind you, they might have changed it for Liverpool knowing OUR politics lol
@@stephenqualtrough7322 No the story is the same. This is the original. This song is about the Russian. You mentioned Murray Head. This song as written and performed is not about Murray
@@toriboy25 Fair enough I must have bern half asleep when I was watching it and misinterpreted it out have misrembered it then., Thanks for the clarification
this could have been an ABBA song ! (I believe the A's did a demo version)
Thelma and Witney Huston and also Barbra Streisand Covered this B&B Hit
Whitney did it with her mom. Its different, but lovely too
Please check out the Elaine Paige and Susan Boyle version of this song. Riveting.
One was the wife, the other was the mistress from the play called Chess! Whitney Houston did a version with her mother gospel singer Cissy Houston! ruclips.net/video/IqTPj_xdZbY/видео.html
I feel this is blended perfection.. but would love to hear how others today would sing it.. I think Leona Lewis could do a good job
One of the newer versions has Amanda Holden and Sheridan Smith. There are two or three male duet versions too, and a couple really funny comic versions. None quite touches the Paige/Dickson original, though.
Dua Lipa and Taylor Swift should do this song together.
I wished Karen Carpenter sung this song also...it will be a more beautiful if she sung this song.
But did Svetlana and Florence really know him? At times they seem to be saying the opposite things about him.
Because he was playing both of them. Fascinatingly, there's a male duet version of this song, with unchanged lyrics, where the two singers are singing about each other; stands the meaning of the song on its head without changing a word!
God lasts forever.
Barbra Streisand and Bette Midler would be my ideal alternative choice!
Mm. Barbra yes, Bette yikes. I'd put Lara Fabian with Barbra...
No aiutotune
Indeed not. Hadn't been invented yet. Now it doesn't matter if you can't carry a tune in a station wagon, long as you're hot-looking...🙄